Take advantage of the DbContext in Entity Framework Core to connect to a database and perform CRUD operations using CLR objects Microsoft’s Entity Framework is an open-source object-relational mapper, ...

Sometimes, you need to store more complex data in your app than just simple key/value pairs saved with a text file or Shared Preferences. Databases are ideal for storing complex data structures and ...

Thanks to the technology behind ChatGPT, it’s become surprisingly simple to query a data set in plain English. As with most generative AI, results from OpenAI’s API are still imperfect, which means ...

Back in 2016, when Microsoft announced that SQL Server would soon run on Linux, the news came as a major surprise to users and pundits alike. Over the course of the last year, Microsoft’s support for ...

Read this SQL tutorial to learn when to use SELECT, JOIN, subselects and UNION to access multiple tables with a single statement. It’s sometimes difficult to know which SQL syntax to use when ...